Written Answers Tuesday 28 June 2005

Scottish Executive

Air Services

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether VisitScotland holds data on the final destinations of people flying into Scottish airports.

Brian Adam (Aberdeen North) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether any information held by VisitScotland on final destinations of people flying into Scottish airports is made available to these airports.

Patricia Ferguson: VisitScotland does not currently hold data on the final destinations of people flying into Scottish airports. However, VisitScotland is involved in research currently being carried out in conjunction with a number of Scottish airports. This research will include findings on the final destinations of people flying into Scottish airports. The research is due to be completed in December 2005 and findings are expected be available in the spring of 2006.

  This research is being managed by the Civil Aviation Authority and, in addition to VisitScotland, partners involved in the research are BAA’s Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow airports; Inverness airport; Glasgow Prestwick airport; Scottish Enterprise, and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

Alcohol Misuse

Mrs Nanette Milne (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it has made available for alcohol rehabilitation schemes in each of the last five years.

Rhona Brankin: We have awarded specific funding for alcohol treatment and rehabilitation of £3 million in 2004-05 and £5 million in 2005-06.

Libraries

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number of staff employed in libraries in each local authority was in each of the last five years.

Patricia Ferguson: This is a matter for local authorities. The information is not held centrally. Although Audit Scotland reports on certain performance indicators in respect of local authority libraries, these do not cover the data sought. Further information may be available from the Scottish Library and Information Council.

Libraries

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average number of hours per week public libraries were open was in each local authority in each of the last five years.

Patricia Ferguson: This is a matter for local authorities. The information is not held centrally. Although Audit Scotland reports on certain performance indicators in respect of local authority libraries, these do not cover the data sought. Further information may be available from the Scottish Library and Information Council.

Sport

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of how many (a) football, (b) rugby, (c) tennis, (d) athletics, (e) hockey and (f) swimming clubs there have been in each local authority area in each of the last five years.

Patricia Ferguson: Neither the Scottish Executive nor  sportscotland has estimates of the number of sports clubs in local authority areas. The Scottish Football Association, Scottish Rugby Union, Tennis Scotland, Scottish Athletics, Scottish Hockey Union and Scottish Swimming may be able to provide some regional breakdowns of the numbers of clubs that are affiliated to them.

Swimming Pools

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authority-maintained swimming pools there were per 1,000 population in each local authority in the last year for which figures are available.

Patricia Ferguson: The information requested is set out in the following table.

  

Local Authority
No. of Pools as of June 2005(Including School Pools)
Population*(000)
Pools/1,000 Population


Aberdeen City
21
212
0.10


Aberdeenshire
19
227
0.08


Angus
8
108
0.07


Argyll and Bute
6
91
0.07


City of Edinburgh
28
449
0.06


Clackmannanshire
3
48
0.06


Dumfries and Galloway
8
148
0.05


Dundee City
9
145
0.06


East Ayrshire
6
120
0.05


East Dunbartonshire
5
108
0.05


East Lothian
6
90
0.07


East Renfrewshire
5
89
0.06


Falkirk
8
145
0.06


Fife
24
350
0.07


Glasgow City
24
579
0.04


Highland
22
209
0.11


Inverclyde
7
84
0.08


Midlothian
8
81
0.10


Moray
6
87
0.07


North Ayrshire
5
136
0.04


North Lanarkshire
19
321
0.06


Orkney Islands
6
19
0.32


Perth and Kinross
5
135
0.04


Renfrewshire
8
173
0.05


Scottish Borders
8
107
0.08


Shetland Islands
9
22
0.41


South Ayrshire
5
112
0.04


South Lanarkshire
10
302
0.08


Stirling
9
86
0.10


West Dunbartonshire
5
93
0.05


West Lothian
19
159
0.12


Western Isles
8
26
0.31


All Scotland
339
5,061
0.07



  *Figures taken from 2001 National Census and rounded to nearest 1,000.

Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body

G8 Summit

Carolyn Leckie (Central Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S2W-17331 by George Reid on 21 June 2005 and in the event of any G8 leaders and/or their supporting delegations visiting the Parliament, whether they would be required to produce any identification such as a utility bill.

George Reid: Heads of State and their supporting delegations would not require ID.